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23 gen 2024 · CNN — The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90...
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final judgement of all people on Earth. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the ...
DateClaimant (s)Description1901This church, founded in 1831, claimed ...1901Keeler, a prominent doctor in ...1910Flammarion predicted that the 1910 ...1892–1911This pyramidologist concluded from his ...- The Mayan Calendar
- Camping and The Rapture
- The Black Hole from Geneva
- Y2K and The Millennium Bug
- Nostradamus and The King of Terror
- The Great Flood and The Flying Saucer
The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendarcame to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the World Wide Web, even NASA was compelledto pub...
The world was also supposed to end on October 21, 2011. American radio host Harold Campinghad arrived at the date for the apocalypse through a series of calculations that he claimed were based on Jewish feast days and the lunar calendar. In addition to his claims about the end of the world, he also predicted that on May 21, 2011, at precisely 6:00 ...
Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)near Geneva, Switzerland, to set up controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds. The experiments have caused some to believe that the energies set free by the collisions will form a black holepowerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. No such black hole has been sighted yet, and sev...
Toward the end of the second millennium, people around the world feared that the world would end simultaneously with the beginning of the year 2000, or Y2K. This prediction was based on the practice followed by computer programmers of abbreviating year numbers with two digitswhen developing software. For instance, “1999” would be coded as “99.” At ...
Renowned seer Nostradamus prophesied 250 years ago that a “king of terror” would come from the sky in 1999. Austrian geologist and Nostradamus buff Alexander Tollmann decided to play it safe by sitting it out in a self-built bunker in Austria. Tollmann was convinced that the apocalypse was to come early in August, a fear that was consolidated by th...
Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marion Keech) claimed to have received a message from planet Clarion in the early 1950s: the world was to end in a great floodbefore dawn on December 21, 1954. Martin and a group of followers were convinced that a flying saucer would rescue the true believersbefore the inevitable destruction of Earth. The be...
23 gen 2023 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 24 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse in the three-quarters of a century the Clock has been set.
23 gen 2024 · Created in 1947 by a group of scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, the Doomsday Clock represents how close humanity might be to destruction. Over the years, the clock has been set further or ...
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23 gen 2024 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 23 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock will remain at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse. Every year, the Bulletin determines how much metaphorical time we have to avert catastrophe for humankind.
21 gen 2022 · Climate. What the Doomsday Clock is really counting down to. The number of human-made existential risks has ballooned, but the most pressing one is the original: nuclear war. by Bryan Walsh. Jan...
